Learn about the Holocaust survivors who volunteer at the Museum or request to hear a survivor share his or her experiences in person.

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum deeply mourns the passing of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate, and international leader of the Holocaust remembrance movement. In the ...

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is a leading generator of new knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust, inspiring us to continually reexamine and grapple ...

The Museum is free and open every day except Yom Kippur, Christmas Day, and Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025. View the full schedule.

Holocaust denial by Iranian officials, especially by the Supreme Leader, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Hosseini Khamenei, has presented a negative image of Iran and Iranians around the world, ...

Resources and tips to assist you before, during, and after your visit to the Museum ...

The Museum is free and open every day. It is closed on Yom Kippur, Christmas Day, and Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025. The Museum building is open from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. All exhibitions and the ...

CHAPTER 23—UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM Sec. 2301. Establishment of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum; functions. 2302. Functions of the Council; membership. 2303. Compensation; ...

On January 27, 1945, Primo Levi was among the prisoners who were liberated from Auschwitz by the Soviets. Levi had spent nearly a year at the camp. After returning to his native Turin, Italy, Levi ...

Visitors encounter Sol LeWitt’s wall drawing Consequence, situated in the Museum’s second-floor lounge, just after they leave the portion of the Permanent Exhibition dedicated to the ghettos and death ...

Dr. Marta Kurkowska-Budzan received a Ph.D. and an M.A. in history from Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland. During her fellowship at the Museum, she was Lecturer at the same university. For her ...

Professor Susan Gilson Miller is a professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She earned her PhD in History and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor in ...